Theme Installation

New to Hugo?

If you are new to Hugo, you should go through an introductory phase prior to installing the theme. Before creating the project, we recommend you explore the following links:

1. First of all, check our Hugo Guide. (Required)
2. You can learn more about Hugo from the Official Hugo Documentation.
3. For more clarification, you can check the Video Tutorials

Create A New Project

1. Launch the Terminal and go to the specific location where you prefer to run your site.

   

2. Use the following command to create a new site. It will add a folder with your given PROJECT NAME.

   hugo new site my-project
   

   

Setup Your Project With Reader

1. Unzip the downloaded file, and you will get Reader in the themes folder.

   

2. Copy the themes/reader-hugo into the my-project/themes folder so that you end up with a folder structure like my-project/themes/reader-hugo/

   

3. Copy all files from the exampleSite folder into the project directory ( my-project/ ). It will overwrites existing files and folders. You can delete the exampleSite folder afterward.

   

4. Navigate to the project directory (In this example, its my-project )

   cd my-project
   

   

5. Run Hugo to serve your project.

   hugo server
   

   

6. Now, you get a generated URL and open it in your browser. The default URL looks like this localhost:1313.

Video documentation

You may find the following video tutorial helpful in setting up your next project. As an example, we’ll utilize our Biztrox theme.